Progressive Readings in ProseRudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Doubleday, Page, 1923 - 376 pages |
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... least thing in the world - speaking genially to one's aunt , or giving up one's seat in a horse - car , if nothing more heroic offers but let it not fail to take place . These latter cases make us aware that it is not simply particular ...
... least thing in the world - speaking genially to one's aunt , or giving up one's seat in a horse - car , if nothing more heroic offers but let it not fail to take place . These latter cases make us aware that it is not simply particular ...
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... least the books of Genesis , Exodus , Ruth , Esther , the Song of Songs , Proverbs and , above all , Job . Job is certainly the grandest book in the Bible ; but all of those which I have named are books that have inspired poets and ...
... least the books of Genesis , Exodus , Ruth , Esther , the Song of Songs , Proverbs and , above all , Job . Job is certainly the grandest book in the Bible ; but all of those which I have named are books that have inspired poets and ...
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... least the water supply of the streams . The method of storage reservoirs , ex- tensively tried in France , has been sug- gested as a method of river improvement in the United States . Reservoirs filled in the spring freshet season serve ...
... least the water supply of the streams . The method of storage reservoirs , ex- tensively tried in France , has been sug- gested as a method of river improvement in the United States . Reservoirs filled in the spring freshet season serve ...
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... least the merit of saving time , an all important object with the American people . When we recall that this remarkable nation will spend mil- lions of dollars to build a tunnel under a river , or to shorten a curve in a railroad ...
... least the merit of saving time , an all important object with the American people . When we recall that this remarkable nation will spend mil- lions of dollars to build a tunnel under a river , or to shorten a curve in a railroad ...
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... least savor of monarchy or hierarchy , and eager to blaze as new a path for it- self in the social as it has succeeded in accomplishing in the political world . Combined with this is the American char- acteristic of saving time . Time ...
... least savor of monarchy or hierarchy , and eager to blaze as new a path for it- self in the social as it has succeeded in accomplishing in the political world . Combined with this is the American char- acteristic of saving time . Time ...
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Page 238 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 212 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Page 14 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 71 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 171 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...
Page 212 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
Page 30 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 141 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 14 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 265 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with: sackcloth, and sat in ashes.